@quadfather - LoL. PS3 all the way for me, don't know if my PC is powerful enough to run it. Do you use a controller with the PC version? I wouldnt know how mouse and keyboard would work for dark souls on PC.

I love my faith character, After putting a few points into END, it means (providing I have light gauntlets, head gear and lower armour) I can wear my Giants Armour+5. I found the gauntlets that the Barbarian class starts with, are pretty good upgraded, and the weight is only 1.8

@Architect_z - I have to use a 360 controller, plugged into the pc. Keyboard and mouse is inviting even more suicide. I've recently upgraded my pc, so it's nice to have ds running at a high res - looks great.

Plus ps3 is in the attic, so that's normally evening time when I use that.

@Architect_z - yeah makes sense to me. Well, I've levelled my pc char up a bit. Farmed 50 humanity in the depths and got the chaos shortcut open to get the maggot as it was catacombs next. Done that now and after dying fairly liberally in totg, finally done. Christ, nito gets on my tits. Did him first time but he's a pain. Got everything from totg except silver ring-misjudged the drop

Take your time, not just once you're into the game but, initially, while getting into it. I just doesn't play like other games and can be a bit of a shock

I've been mercilessly killing npc's and generally being evil in preparation for NG++ tonight. I love that stage. I always hover before I knife the first NPC thinking "have I done everything?", "do I really want to start this process and go back to square one?".... and then go crazy on a massive killfest- NO-ONE is safe

Bought the Artorias armour set from the Donhall guy too- it looks flipping awesome. I know the DLC wasn't too large, but there is some really tasty armour and weapons in it.

@quadfather - On my first playthrough, I found Nito to be a nightmare, however it was my own fault, as I had a useless devine weapon and basically no faith.

I just got a Baldur to +15, but I have 1 titanite slab left, I was thinking of getting a great scythe fully upgraded, as my PvP character uses the lifehunt scythe, and I need a buffable weapon for when I get darkmoon blade miracle.

I think when I get my faith character to SL-125, I'm gonna do some of the DLC PvP stuff and see how I do. ^_^

@mcmothercruncher - Artorias armour is pretty good, its great if you wear the whole set. the downside is, even fully upgraded, its not as good as the elite knight armour. I have the elite knight chest piece at +5 and the stats are about the same.

@mcmothercruncher - You're like me, I prefer to look like a badass than wear the best armour. Saying that, I do have a giants armour chest piece+5 which has the best defence of any armour set in the game, but it suits my character. Plus its only the chest, my gauntlets, helm and lower body armour are all light pieces.

Just having the chest piece makes my character a tank, but I can still run/roll around fast enough. ^_^

Personally I like to have my character look as ridiculous as he possibly can. So I took off all his clothes, donned the helm that looks like a giant chicken drumstick in mummy wrap, and ran around the Undead Burg with a large hammer.

@Mola_Ram - I do that when I get summoned for games, I wear some awesome looking armour, so when they see my souls sign, they think a badass is joining, then as soon as I get summoned, I take my armour off and wear an undead helm, and 2-hand a really small club.

I love how you look when your undead, you look like a piece of beef jerky

So...Ornstein and Smough...interesting fight. I can manage to kill one of them with the help of Solaire ofcourse. After trying both variants I think I will have the best chance if I kill Ornstein first. Unfortunately I'm running out of humanity, so I think I'm gonna have to find some rats soon

Of course this wouldn't be Dark Souls if it wouldn't put some real bastards in between the bonfire(s) and bossfight. Plus you need to get rid of them if you want to summon Solaire without problems. Still haven't decided which bonfire to start from. Argh, even when I not playing I'm thinking about it

@Red_Bool - I know what you mean about these 2, however - I can assure you that they're possibly easier to kill if you take out Smough first on NG and then Ornstein first on NG+. You will be far more likely to succeed if you stay in the general nutsack area of the uber versions of the 2 bosses. When you see them about to do a ground pound attack, just jump back quickly before closing in again when it's safe. You can also subject them to toxic using Dung Pies, then use something else (such as poison throwing knives) to inflict poison for extra DPS. Similarly you can make them bleed nicely, Priscilla's Dagger is possibly the best for this as you can quickly swipe and then raise your shield for their counter, this dagger is also more effective against living creatures (which these 2 bosses are) so its use isn't wasted in this fight.
Also this is from the wiki:

Ornstein is weak against fire, using a +5 fire weapon in this fight will be significantly easier. However, if you do not have easy access to the Fire Ember located in the Demon Ruins (After Queelag's domain) needed to upgrade a weapon to fire attribute, Queelag's Furysword is also a good alternative. Smough is weak to Lightning in the first form, but gains slight resistance once he transforms, but also shares Ornstein's vulnerability to fire. Pyromancies are therefore also quite effective.

@quadfather - Or the Great Hollow... Use Slumbering Dragoncrest Ring and CGS Ring along with the BBoP; that way the Crystal Lizards don't notice you so well. Couple that with hidden body and you can snipe most of them before they see you, there's about 10/12 in here and you can get 1/2 slabs on a single run - so long as you don't fall

@Elathron - forgot about those. Never had much luck with the great hollow. aleays end up getting cursed or falling. Might try it though. I tried getting to that chest in the dlc-spent ages circling it checking out what kind of trap it was then promptly got incinerated! Cheers chaps

How come that whenever I unhollow I cock up on the stupidest fights?? I can usually finish off those royal sentinels before the O&S fight without getting hit, but when I'm human it's like all my tactics don't work anymore (usually I roll underneath them when they're about the swipe, but somehow when I tried that yesterday all they do is stab so I roll right into their halbert )

Anyway, spent half an hour yesterday harvesting humanity in the Depths. As soon as I have 20 I'm planning on going back (and buy a shitload of poison arrows along the way)

Red_Bool wrote:
How come that whenever I unhollow I cock up on the stupidest fights?? I can usually finish off those royal sentinels before the O&S fight without getting hit, but when I'm human it's like all my tactics don't work anymore (usually I roll underneath them when they're about the swipe, but somehow when I tried that yesterday all they do is stab so I roll right into their halbert )

Anyway, spent half an hour yesterday harvesting humanity in the Depths. As soon as I have 20 I'm planning on going back (and buy a shitload of poison arrows along the way)

It's because you're not used to being human and it's preying on your mind so you play differently. Just unhollow and have 1 humanity for a while to get used to the pressure

Good tip though - depths for humanity and poison arrows is always a winner. I managed to get 50 odd humanity in just over an hour in the depths with some music on to help me just keep doing it - it's worth it in the long run